metaviz: Forest Plots, Funnel Plots, and Visual Funnel Plot Inference for Meta-Analysis

A compilation of functions to create visually appealing and information-rich plots of meta-analytic data using 'ggplot2'. Provides functions to create forest plots, funnel plots, and many of their variants, including rainforest plots, thick forest plots, additional evidence contour funnel plots, and sunset funnel plots. In addition, functionalities for visual inference with funnel plots in the context of meta-analysis are provided. Further functionalities include plots for comparing fixed-effect and random-effects models and dedicated visualizations for three-level meta-analysis.

Version: 0.4.0
Depends: R (≥ 3.2.0)
Imports: ggplot2 (≥ 3.1.0), nullabor (≥ 0.3.5), dplyr (≥ 0.7.8), RColorBrewer (≥ 1.1-2), metafor (≥ 1.9-9), gridExtra (≥ 2.2.1), ggpubr (≥ 0.1.6), magrittr, DescTools (≥ 0.99.54), ggpattern (≥ 1.1.4), gtable (≥ 0.3.6), moments (≥ 0.14.1), tidyr (≥ 1.0.0), ggbeeswarm (≥ 0.7.2), ggnewscale (≥ 0.5.1), scales (≥ 1.4.0)
Suggests: Cairo (≥ 1.5-9), knitr, rmarkdown, psymetadata (≥ 1.0.1), testthat (≥ 3.0.0)
Published: 2026-09-28
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.metaviz
Author: Michael Kossmeier [cre, aut], Ulrich S. Tran [aut], Martin Voracek [aut], Verena Pilar [aut]
Maintainer: Michael Kossmeier <michael.kossmeier at univie.ac.at>
BugReports: https://github.com/Mkossmeier/metaviz/issues
License: GPL-2
URL: https://github.com/Mkossmeier/metaviz
NeedsCompilation: no
Materials: NEWS
In views: MetaAnalysis
CRAN checks: metaviz results

Documentation:

Reference manual: metaviz.html , metaviz.pdf
Vignettes: Conducting visual inference with funnel plots (source, R code)
Visualizing meta-analytic data with package metaviz (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: metaviz_0.4.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: metaviz_0.3.1.zip, r-release: metaviz_0.3.1.zip, r-oldrel: metaviz_0.3.1.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): metaviz_0.3.1.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): metaviz_0.3.1.tgz, r-release (x86_64): metaviz_0.3.1.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): metaviz_0.3.1.tgz
Old sources: metaviz archive

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